LANCASTER DAILY lflTELUGENCEfii SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1881. lancaster inteUif encrt. SATURDAY KVXNINO, MAY 9B, 188L Is Me Deserted! Tbe Intelligences does net seem te be able te persuade' the Philadelphia Pre that it should presently go te tbe help of William Mahone. It troubles 'us that ear advice is net heeded, for we take an interest in tbe -Pttas and want te see it establish itself en solid founda tions as a Republican organ and a reli able newspaper. Is started out te sheet strong and straight when its new editor came all tbe way down from Albany and Conkling, but latterly it has net been standing by its old friends with the enthusiasm they might expect. Conk ling has been fairly turned tail te; and se has Dersey ; and there is peer Will iam Mahone, the pride of its heart a month age, has net for ever a fortnight bad a word of comfort given him. It is a very hard case, for William was a patriot; and patriots should net be left by their friends te suf fer and die. We have called the attention of the Press several times te its neglect; se that it really appears te be intentional, and we are afraid that it J is seriously contemplating the advisa bility of going back en Mr. Mahone, just as Mr. Garfield has determined te de en the discovery that William is net the controlling unit in the Senate and that it won't be altogether safe te ruffle the Democratic senators, who may control the situation, by taking the Virginia trai ter te the administrative besom. The propensity of the Press te fellow the ad ministration and te leek for fortune in its smiles, strongly exhibited in the de sertien of Conkling, would be demon strated te be of almighty strength if Mr. Mahone also is abandoned. Its de votien te both was intense ; its coldness te Conkling is icy ; its neglect of Ma hone total. Alas ! that the frown of official disfavor should be se killing! That the savieur of the Seuth, the re generator, the man whom future ages would surely rise up and call blessed, should get kicked into the gutter se unceremoniously ! ffele the Slra ! It will never de this thing of elect- ing red-headed men te be speakers! It is net Hewit's fault; he can't help it; why should a man be abused because the Lord has net given him the ability te held his tongue or control it ? It is all the same as berating the Deity te abuse His creature for working according te the laws of His creation. Tbe real fault was committed when Mr. Hewit was unanimously selected for the speaker ship by his Republican colleagues de spite the red thatch with which the Lord had crowned him asa special warning and advice of the temper templed within. Hewit was made speaker with full notice of his absolute inability te de what the speaker's office required of him. The mistake was net made by his con stituents in electing him te the Legisla ture, for he was a man of fair repute when he went there and his looseness of tongue was net a symptom of his inca pacity for the Assembly. Te talk is something expected of a legislator, and there is no reasonable objection te his having a bad temper, because a calm speaker is supposed te be en hand te control his ebullitions and the sergeant-at-arms is en hand te take him out when he don't behave himself. Red hair, as the sign of an excitable disposition therefore, is net one for the voter te take notice of ; but the legislator who fails te be warned against selecting a red haired speaker, after the valuable testi mony given te the virtue of the sign by speaker iiewit, cannot defend himself at all. What an excellent thing it would be if only men of suitable temperament and qualification could be selected for official positions, and what a benefaction if each incapacitating quality was signified by some prominent physical characteristic ! But, alas! except this sign of unruly temper, told by red hair, what have we given us in men's appearance te tell their virtues and their failings ? Let us then value this sigh and be guid ed by it, and never again trust a red headed man in a place which calls for one who can be calm and who can held his tongue. The JVcic Era very properly inquires of the county commissioners why they de net require the contractor te build a bridge in East Earl township, which, was let two years age, and intimates that it is because the favored and suc cessful bidder has tee much of a con tract en hand. This is no geed reason for letting up en him. Had inm- ber crone down lift vnnM intra muia fi. county pay for it all the same. Perhaps I if bidders had te furnish bail with their bills, there would be less straw bidding and dummy contracting in local affairs. The Philadelphia Times complains that it has ''-spoken te the roosters in English and German and French and Italian, and still they de net seem te un derstand." It tries Latin en them and will " exhaust the list of languages, liv ing ana dead, rather than have it said that the Times did net give them every opportunity te understand the indict ment against them." What the Times needs te give them is an installment of deaf, dumb and blind literature. Ik the Conkling-Blaine fight centitrae the public will discover as much abmt the national Republican leaders as the people of this county find out abe the I local Mulhoelys when the Bull and Heg Rings begin te re-form. Mr. Conkling's friends are washing Blaine and Garfield's dirty linen at a rate which uuicates that there is a big hamper full of it in the closet. When is Mr. Blaise's wash day ? We can net agree with tbe orator at Millersville last evening, who advised tbe young woman, seized with inspira tion te write a poem, te de it. If he could stand tbe editorial waste-basket en its head, he would emphatically say, withPtmcA, " don't." But his advice te her te net keep tbe young man waiting for his answer was geed ; and no doubt some of his fair readers took it. It seem ed te bike them. ' Senatek Cenkxing seems very likely te get a majority of the Republicans of the New Yerk Legislature te go into a caucus te nominate senators ; but when this is done the situation will be tbe same as it was when Cameren get the ma jerity of Pennsylvania members into caucus; a minority will stay out, suffi cient in numbers te defeat an election. And in New Yerk this minority arrayed en the side of the administration and having its support, may be expfjted te held out as effectually as the Pennsylva nia minority did. There seems no pos sibility of Conkling's election, except in an arrangement with the Democrats, and thssts most improbable since their manifest policy is te keep their hands off and adhere te their own nominations. There is no possibility at all of a Demo cratic union with the anti-Conkling element. Mr. Conkling would be pre ferred te any Republican by the Democ racy. Net only because his presence in the Senate would distract his party and his m strength keep it from unity, but mainly because he is known te be a strong opponent of monopolies of every kind ; and this is tbe issue upon which the Democratic party is preparing te stake its life. Ex-Senater Eaten ex presses the general Democratic senti ment when he declares for Democratic non-intervention between Conkling and Garfield ; but never for Garfield if sides have te be taken. PEBbONAl. Beb BuitDETTE, the Burlington Hawk eye man, will make Philadelphia his home next winter. King Alfonse has had windows with cords and weights put into his palace, aud he is as tickled as a boy with a new mouth organ. Hen. Jehn J. Libhart's condition is A a. A W mm. - aoeut me same." tie is unable te see but his appetite is better than it was weeks age. Gen. O. O. Heward has abolished the cadet barber at West Point, and has stop step ped the band music at Sunday parades as it draws crowds of listeners en that day. Fourteen Baptist churches have with drawn from the California Baptist con ventien en account of the connection of the Kaixechs with that denomination. Margaret Fuller's birthday was cele orateu in unicage en Monday with music and recitations of prose and poetry by the "Margaret Fuller Society. " The brilliant American woman was born just seventy- one years age. Our Uncle Sammy Tilden wants his party te stand straight as a gate pest and try w mrew me senatorial election te a new Legislature, chosen by the people, who may send two Democrats. S. J. T. says he wouldn't be one of them for money or an extension of years. Among the wedding presents te Miss Maynard, new Lady Breeke, was a sapphire and diamond breech, tUe gift of the late Lord Beaconsfield. It must have been in his thoughts very near the end, as Lord Rowton says that one of the last things said te him by his dying friend was: "Be sure and send that te Daisy from ine. Paul H. Hayne, the Southern poet.has a "deuble7' se like himself that he sue ceeded in passing himself off for an hour en Edmund C. Stedman and his wife, and Mr. Stedman did net suspect who he was even when the'begus Paul borrowed $12 from him. The discovery was made accidentally some time afterward. Philadelphia Times : It was very unfor tunate for Senater Mahone that the man who sent a postal card through the mails referring te him as " a damn deg" should have been prosecuted for it. A geed many people may new be reminded te employ this awkward expression in referring te the senator from Virginia who otherwise would never have thought of it. Rev. S. R. Fisher. D. D..of Philadel phia, editor of the Reformed Church Mes senger, who has been in attendance at the sessions of the General Synod of the Re formed church of the United States at Tiffin, Ohie, is lying dangerously ill at that place, and the physicians entertain no hope of his recovery. Dr. Fisher is the stated clerk of the Reformed synod, has occupied that position for many years and is one of the best known clergymen of the denomination. It has been suggested that the man who wrote the postal card te Vance, of which Mahone complains, only meant' te all the Virginia whiffet "a d(ea)d deg." 4iy the way, here is a postal package going through the Albany office, en the outside of which Conkling is denounced asa 'Judas Iscariot, Benedict Arneld and all that sort of thing. The nimble ipestal agents of Washington and the deputy marshals of Alexandria, who Jiave arrested Mr. Carmichael, should "be hurried te Fairfield. The Londen World says that Dr. Tal lage "is an American divine of fame, or aP8 rather notoriety, who is chiefly - known in England by the rnthlessness witb wbicb, in a lecturing tour he made through the provinces, he bled his san guine co-religionists who had been deluded Snte offering him large fees. Talmage re cently announced that if, when reaching Heaven, he found fewer than 100,000 souls had been saved by his instrumentality he would ask permission te return te earth and make up the balance. In the mean time, at the close of the services, he re quests the audience net te carry off the hymn books." A Demestic Tragedy. McDonald Lyen, a well-known brick aad tite manufacturer of Chicago, died at Denver, Colerado, en Wednesday night, from an overdose of jnerphine given him w ease pains in tne stemacb. Tbe mor phine was administered by the wife of his eusiness partner. Wbe had ftircLlren hnr Ihusband and gene te Denver with Lyen, rhe wretched woman has since made tihree attempts te commit suicide. . HepeXnl Oatloek. Sew Yerk Herald. Division between the Republican fae fae taens in this state, whinh ; , . te the Democrats and se opens the way te tfcelr gaining tbe presidency in 1884, will net by any means be an unmixed evil te the nation. The Inevitable Collision. says : Mr. The New Yerk Ban says : Mr. Conk ling's machine has been all-newerfhl in this state, but we shall be able te judge of its real force when it meets another Ma chine running in an opposite direction en the same track. STATE ITEMS. Geoge Heimbscb, a conductor en the Northern Central railroad, fell from a car near Mount Carmel, and was cut te pieces. Speaker Hewit has received a billet billet deux of eight pages from ex-Chief Justice Agnew favoring tbe catching of bass in April and May. Henry Handelpn, a Hawley youth, was almost instantly killed, while carelessly handling a gun.. The weapon was dis charged, tearing away his right side of the boy's head. A violent thunderstorm passed through the Catawissa Valley Thursday night. The lightning shattered several telegraph poles and struck and instantly killed Wm. Davis, a boy, who was plowing in a field at Zion's Greve. A tramway in the Beaver mill yard, Williamsport, fell fourteen feet, laden with four trucks of lumber, six men and a horse. Geerge Heffman had a limb broken in two places above the knee, and Nelsen Byers, foreman of the mill, was se riously injured. Tbe ether men escaped with trilling injuries. If Representative Wolfe were te frame a general law in this Legislature upon the subject of legal advertising he would wisely favor a prevision that it should go into papers having tbe largest circulation in the county, because in that way it would reach tbe largest number of people iuterested. The Northern Tier Reporter, published at Pert Allegany, McKean county, en ters upon the eighth year of its existence with bright prospects for a continuance of the prosperity that has thus far signalized its career. The Reporter is an excellent local and family newspaper, while its De mocracy and earnest devotion te the cause of geed government are of the most posi tive character. While assisting te put up a feet-log in position at Merrow's crossing, en Sher man's creek, in Tyrene township, Perry county, Jehn Wormley was literally crush ed into a shapeless mass by the leg slip ping and falling en hinr, bearing down under water, which was about four feet deep. His body was hidden from his fel low workmen's view, but the bleed flew ing from his body bubbled te the surface and thus indicated the terrible condition in which he then existed. The cylinder head of passenger engine 4b, en the niiiaueipnia s iteadmir read. blew out at New Castle and instantly killed Jeremiah Reed, superintendent of the Pottsville water works. Mr. Reed had been up te one of the company's dams and returning te .New uastle station waited for the train from Frackville, which comes down the meuutiain backwards. As it was in the act of stepping at the station the explosion occurred. Reed was stand ing alone a few feet above the station and was struck by pieces of iron, which crushed in all bis ribs and bis skull. At the summer meeting of the state beard of agriculture, in Williamsport, June 7, The Laws and Customs of Public Highways will be discussed bv Gee. W. Heed, from Indiana ; Manual Laber and new it may be .Encouraged, by Hen. V. C. Musselraan, Somerset; The Preparation ei tne u round for Wheat, by J. J J. Lytle. Butler ; Reads and Read Making, by W. G. Moere, Berks ; The Economical Use of Stock Feeds, by Prof. W. n. Jer dan, State cellege ; Division Fences, bv Hen. A. N. Perrin ; The Apiary, its care and prom, by 31. W. Oliver, Crawford ; Creameries, E. Reeder, Bucks : Is the Importaien'of Foreign Live Stock a Benefit te the Pennsylvania Farmer? A. D. Shimer, Northampton. LATEST NEWS BY MAIL. A five-year-old child of J. H. Weld, of Clearfield county, was recently kicked by a horse, receiving: severe, iniuries which resulted fatally half an hour after the ec currence The supreme court of New Yerk has granted the order te change the name of the corporation of "Scribner & Ce." te "The Century Ce." the order te take effect en the 31st of June. The July issues of Seribnefs MentJily and St. Nielwlas will have the new corporate imprint. The following is the midnight score in the New Yerk walk : Vint, 520 ; Clew, 494 ; Sullivan, 491 ; Fitzgerald, 467 ; Lit Lit Lit tlewoed, 403 ; Heward, 450 ; Donevan, 440 ; Hazael, 440; Curran, 420; Dufrane, 415. Vint premises te make 600 before the finish. The crowds are increasing. Mr. Lewis Meltern and his son-in-law, Rev. Evans, a Wiuebrennerian minister recently from West Virginia, were both killed by lightning near Westville, Jeffer Jeffer eon county. They were planting corn and sought shelter from the rain under a tree, which was struck Jalmest as seen as they reacueu it. The notorious Annie E. Wallingford has brought an action in New Yerk te recover $2,000 from Jeseph F. Peacock, alleging that en the 29th of last April he assaulted her at her residence and nearly cut off her forefinger. Peacock's renlv is that thnv had adjoining rooms. In a quarrel she attacked him with a pair of scissors and while trying te disarm her she was cut. In La Salle, III., an earthquake shock was distinctly felt in the manufacturing quarter between the bluffs and the canal in the southwestern part of the town, and six fissures running nearly parallel north west and southwest for nearly 600 feet in length, were discovered. Tbe walls and foundations of buildings and the furnace masonry in D. E. Steiger's factory were cracked in numerous places and are esti mated te have sunk six inches. A young German named Henry Graft entered a saloon in the northwestern part of Chicago, and, calling for a pint of whisky, swallowed it. He then bet five dollars with the saloon-keeper that he could drink a quart of the same liquor without stepping. He did se, but before he could turn arennd he dropped te the fleer and in a few moments was dead. The saloon-keeper was held for the action of the grand jury. Newton, N. J., is somewhat excited ever the elopement of the widow of Wat Wat eon Jacksen with Themas Tibbet. The couple went out in a carriage, left two of the widow's children at the county poor peer house and then left for parts unknown. Tibbet leaves behind him a wife and five little children, while Mrs. Jackon had only the two children whom -she placed in the poorhouse before her departure. Tib bet's wife is left penniless and helpless. A, Voice Frem Fairfield, At Albany yesterday, as a feature of the anti-Conkling fight, a letter was re ceived through the mails by Mr. Alverd from a correspondent in Fairfield, Pa. On the outside of the envelope was writ ten the following proclamation : "Give him another chance. Oh yes, certainly! Benedict Arneld should have had another chance I Judas Iscariot should have had another chancel Jehn Tyler and Andrew Jehnsen ditto ! Let this, our modest request, be granted, by all means 1 We all knew Judas bad charge of the purse! He couldn't be an apostle en any ether terms. A potential traitor always! He has purposely made and sedulously keeps alive at all times the impression mm, it nei aiieweu te nave bis own way in everything be would desert ; and with shame must it be confessed that this has ween me main source of his power. His associates in Congress have trembled and truckled and yielded ! His audacious de mands have always increased with every concession, and here we are new in a devil of a trouble, a consequence of this servil ity. Halt!" THE OKDSX OE DEACONESS. The DlMOMteB of is la tli Refenaed Synod. The recent meeting of the General Synod of the Reformed church in Tiffin, Ohie, was enlivened by a spirited discussion of 4be proposed establishment of the order of deaconess, which was precipitated by a weighty paper by Dr. Eniest and by the urgency of the German element for the in stitution of the order. In the course of the debate Rev. Cyrus Cert, in answer te a suggestion for post ponement of the subject, argued that tbe old mustard seed parable which has cov ered se many sins of procrastination does net fit the case. We need a mast or a plank for a ship. We de net plant an acorn and wait a century, but take an oak already grown, and devote it te needed use. We stand en shoulders of ancestors and benefit by the labors of ether. This deaconess question is net a new question. It was an institution of the early church, recognized in the word of Ged and by the sixteenth century reformers, and mere re cently, by Evangelical Protestantism. Fjfteen years age Dr. Harbaugh published an exhaustive article en the deaconess question. It has been discussed repeat edly, and it is an insult te the intelligence of the Reformed church te say that 999 out of 1,000 members have given no thought te the subject. There is need for directing the activity of the female mem bers of the church into proper Christian channels, such as the office of deaconess will provide. Rev. Keplin said the remarks just made were very bread ; the committee found different views prevailing and thought it best te let the church think and pray ever the deaconess question three years before it undertakes te define the nature of the deaconess office. Dr. Welfcer said the General Synod did decide that the deaconess was an effice in in the early church. All that this com mittee was appointed te de, was te set in motion the work of introduction, by de vising a practical plan. There is great need or directing and regulating the female activity of the church in the right channel, instead of letting it run wild. There is a large amount of zeal running in wrong channels aud wrong directions at present. The church has suffered by put ting off pressing wants, such as prompt preparation of proper liturgies, etc., and this is another move in some backward direction. After further remarks by Revs. Tugh, Dr. Geed, Keiffer, Titzel, Knicst, etc., the report of the committee was adopted as fellows : "Reselved: That in the judgment of this committee ue plau for the introduc tion into the Reformed church for the effice of deaconess is at present called for, or possible beyond the general circulation among our ministers and people of the valuable paper prepared en the subject by Rev. J. B. Knicst, and asking for this the careful attention and prayerful consider ation of the classes and consistories with in the bounds of this General Synod." m A Chapter of Accidents. William Lancaster, William Musselman and Geerge Zeigler. employed in a factory near Paupack, Pike county, met with a series of disasters en Wednesday. Lan caster was instantly killed by a beard which flew from a saw and crushed in his ribs, Musselman had a part of a haud sawed off and Zeigler fell into a tank of boiling water, from the effects of which he will probably die. Leuis Leig was cutting down a tree near the factory and hearing the commotion iu the mill inadvertently stepped under the falling tree and was crushed te death. LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. DECORATION CEREMONIES. Memerial sermon Marking the Graves Tne rarade The Annual Oration. Pest 84 G. A. R. will attend divine ser vices at Salem church en Sunday evening, May 26th, when a sermon in commemor ation of Decoration day will he preached by the Rev. J. C. St. Jehn, well-known as the boy preacher. All soldiers net members of the pest are requested te par. ticipate in all the services of the day. The graves of soldiers lying in Shreiner's cemetery, colored grave yard, almshouse, etc., will be decorated by a detachment of the pest en Monday morning. Friends having soldiers burie;! in the various grave yards aud cemeteries will please see that the graves are properly marked. Flags for that purpose may be had of the various sextons in charge. It is the design of the pest that no deceased soldier's grave shall be neglected. All societies, associations, etc., intending te particiaate in the parade en Decoration day will be in line nady te move at 1:30 p. m. sharp in the following order of for mation. G. A. R. en North Duke, right resting en East King ; secret societies, Working men's association and Junier battalion en East Orange, right restiug en North Duke, in rear of G. A. R., forming in the order as published en Thursday last ; fire department en .bast King right resting en Duke. The line will move promptly at 1:30 p. m. by order of James Sweger, com manding. The public is earnestly urged te attend at the court house in the evening and hear the address of Colonel Gebin, of Lebanon. There is no charge for admis sion. Firemen's Union. Peter B. Fordney, chief marshal of the Firemen's union,announces the follow ing appointment of company assistants for the Decoration parade : Sun, Sam'l Shread; Friendship, Jacob Reese ; Washington, Valentine Heffman ; American, Philip Smith ; Humane, Henry Ferrest ; Shinier, Geerge Wall ; Empire, A. S. Edwards. The companies will form en East King street, the right resting en Duke, in the order above named. SPECIAL MEETING OF COUNCILS. The Annual Appropriation Mill Passed. There was a special meeting of both branches of city councils last evening te pass the ordinance introduced at the May meeting appropriating moneys te the vari ous departments et the city government for the fiscal year beginning en the first day of June next. There was quite a ceed attendance. considering the extremely warm weather, and in select council Messrs. Barr, Bitner, Berger, Deerr, Gee. W. Zccher, Philip zttcnerana .Evans, president, responded te roll call. The ordinance was at once called up for second reading, and en final passage was adopted without dissent. In common council the following mem bers were present : Messrs. Albert, Barnes, Cox, Davis, Diffendcrffer, Everts, Fisher, Hays, Huber, Jehnsen, Lichty, juceiuiien, ustermayer, Keitu, broder, Shulmyer, Smeych, Stene, White, Lever- geed, president. The appropriation bill was received from the select council, and after the customary first and second readings, was placed en final passage and was passed unanimously yeas SO, nays none without debate. The ordinance is published in our adver tising columns te-day. Tbe only items et especial interest are the appropria tion of 920,000 te pay arrearages for repairs of streets, being a legacy left te the pres ent city government by former Republican administrations, while $4,500 are appro priated te pay for a Belgian block pave ment en the square of North Qneen street from Orange te the railroad. Adjourned. WEM7IMWS VS. SBIKK. Tne Supreme Court's View et the City Treasury Imbroglio. The following is the short, snarp and decisive opinion of the supreme court in the case of the Lancaster city treasurer dispute. Judge Green seems te think the lower court a necessity insomuch as " it knows no law" : Welcuans, 1 May Term, 1831. vs. Errer te C. P. of Lancaster Suibk. ) county. Green, J: In this case the sole centen tien of the parties arises upon the plead ings. These consist of a petition for a mandamus, an answer, and a demurrer te the answer. The petition alleges that the respondent was elected treasurer and re ceiver of taxes of the city of Lancaster te serve for one year' from the fifth day of April 1880, subject te the right of suspension or removal as provided by law. That en January 5, 1831, by joint resolution of the city councils, the re spondent was suspended from his office, and that en January 7, following, the said suspension was, by another resolution, con tinued until lurtber action and ontbesame day the petitioner was appointed te the same office. That the petitioner had duly qualified for the office, and that respond ent held in his possession certain moneys and books belonging te the city, which he refused te deliver te the petitioner upon demand made, and which were necessary for the proper man agement of the financial interests of the city. A mandamus is asked te com pel tbe delivery of the money and books referred te. Te this petition the respon dent filed au answer in which he stated hfs du-j election te the office in question ; that he gave bend, which was approved, took the prescribed oath and entered upon the duties of the office ; but denies that the councils had the right te remove him. He further alleges that he at all times conducted himself faithfully and honestly in his office and never gave any cause for suspension therefrem ; that he was informed of the passage of the resolution or suspension but avows that it was inoperative and void, and that the attempted suspension was entirely' illegal and of no effect. He further alleges that he was en January 7, 1881, and up te the time of subscribing the answer, still treasurer and receiver of taxes of Lan caster city, and that the petitioner was net legally appointed te tbe office and was net such treasurer and receiver. Te this answer the petitioner filed a general de murrer, and the respondent filed a jeinder. The court, holding the answer insuffi cient, gave judgment against the re spondent and awarded a per emptory writ of mandamus. In this there was clear error. The demurrer ad mitted the truth of the facts set out in the answer. Beth the petition and tbe answer concurred in asserting tbe due election of the respondent te the office, and the an swer averred the subsequent qualification and entry by the respondent upon the duties of the effice. He was therefore at the tune the petition was filed, the law fully elected, qualified and acting officer of tbe city. Thus holding his office be could net be arbitrarily deprived of it. Ne right te deprive him of it except, according, te law is al leged, but no suspension or removal in ac cordance with the law is in any manner averred in the petition. Nothing mere is asserted than an actual suspension by res olution. Copies of the resolution are ap pended te the petition, but they contain no mention of any cause of removal. More over, the answer alleges that the respond ent at all times behaved himself in hisof hisef hisof fice faithfully, honestly and carefully, and never gave cause for suspension from the same. The demurrer admits this te be true, and yet the court gives an adverse judgment. Au attempt is made te aeiena tbe action or tbe court by re ferring te the twenty-fifth section of the city charter (act of April 5, 1807), which confers authority te remove the treasurer. The clause in question is in the following words : "The said treasurer shall verify his cash account at least once in every month te the satisfaction of a standing committee of councils, and upon the affi davit of a majority of such committee te any default therein the said treasurer may be suspended from office and another appointed until the further action te councils." It will be seen at once that the right te suspend only arises upon the affidavit of a majority of the cemmittee being made te a default by tbe treasurer in a verification of his account. But no such affidavit is alleged, nor any default by the treasurer. Where then de the councils get the power te sus pend ? The fundamental facts upon which alone that power is based are neither al leged nor proved. Mere than that, the answer affirmatively avers that the re spondent never gave any cause for sus pension, and the demurrer admits this te be true. In order te sustain the judgment of the learned court below we would be obliged te presume the existence of a cause of suspension without any proof, without even an allegation te that effect, and in the face of an assertion by tbe re spondent that there never was such a cause, which assertion the petitioner ad mits te be true. The mere statement of this preposition is enough. We have no authority te make any such presumption in such a state of the record. Judgment reversed; and judgment is new entered here en the demurrer iu favor of the respondent, with costs. Market Matters. There was a very geed market this morning and a very full attendance of buy ers. Of meats, spring lamb was most sought after and went off like het cakes at prices ranging from 16 te 23 cents per peunu. jicei, veai anu mutton were un changed in price. Spring vegetables, roots aud fruits, were reasonably plenty. Onions and radishes sold at 5 cents a bunch, cabbage at 10 ceuts aud nnwards : cauliflower, 25 cents ; cucumbers, 4(5)6 cents each ; beans, 33 cents per half peck ; new potatoes 4050 cents per half peck; peas, 23 cents per half peck ; tomatoes, 25(5)30 cents per box. Of fruits, strawberries commanded tbe most at tention as usual. They sold at 1325 cents per box as per quality. Bananas brought 4060 cents a dozen ; oranges, 40C0 cents a dozen ; lemons, 1525 cents a dozen ; pineapples, 15(25 cents each ; coceauuts, 6rt)lU cents each. The fish market was well supplied, shad being the ruling specialty, prices remain ing unchanged. Flowers and garden plants were in great profusion, of all varieties and at all prices. , An Old Chair. Mr. Henry F. Hartman, lime burner, informs us that white en a recent visit te Mr. Emanuel S. Keener, near White Oak, Penn township, he saw and sat in a chair 135 years old ; which Mr. Keener has had in bis family for a long time aud which there is a tradition that the great Wash ingten himself sat in Child Lest. A little girl named Jennie Stener strayed from her home at Isaac Stirk's en Sunday morning and has net since been heard from. She was about 11 years old, had short hair and were a stone colored dress. Any information of her where abouts will be thankfully received at the mayor's office. Severely Cat. Dr. J. R. Merris, of the Mishler's Bit. ters company, had one of-his thumbs se verely cut yesterday afternoeon by the ac cidental breaking or a glass bottle. An artery and nerve were severed, but the injury will net permanently disable the doctor. UTTUI LOCALS. MANY MEN OF MANY MIND. liamiiminM Hum mi nMhMta. Rev. C. S. Gerhard, in Columbia, Rev. J V. Eckert. in Millersville. and Mev. J. F. Weishampel in this city, te mer row will tackle the revised New Testa ment. S. H. Reynolds, esq., of this city has been in West Chester, helping te try Kenny vs. Kenny, a bitter lawsuit of son against father. There is complaint up in Northumber land ceuuty, that the contest for the Dem ocratic nominations of judge is getting bit ter, personal and unscrupulous. Charles Creamer, of Mt. Nebo while fishing iuthe river near Tucquan yesterday fell from a rock and was badly skinned and bruised. Te-morrow morning Rev D. W. Ger hard, of New Helland, will preach his fourteenth anniversary sermon at.Heller's church and in the afternoon at Zelten reich's. Rev. S. S. Henry's four-year-old boy, of Hinkletewu, while throwing down hay foil through the hatchway and broke his right leg above the knee. The Columbia Spy makes the point that the return judges having declared Fridy elected en the second day of the meeting, and the beard having adjourned sine die, it leeks as if their verdiit would stand according te rules. TheMcNair wing of the Republican party in Yerk, anti-Cameren,is in favor of continuing two judges ever there. Hiram Daily, employed at Reese's livery had his neck bitten by a horse ou Thurs day. The wound, though painful, is net serious. The 60,000 acres of furnace and wood lands of the Thad. Stevens estate, in Adams county, are being surveyed with a view te their sale, division or stripping of timber. The experimentalists around the state farm in Chester county discuss tobacco culture from a moral standpoint, instead of its material profits. They should take a bend from the purchasers of rye and corn tbat none of it nets te the distillery. Fred. Otte Kuenzler, who was ostler at Mart Snyder's Sporting Hill tavern last winter,has left his job at Plummcr's hotel. Mt. Jey, te go te Switzerland and inherit his paternal estate of $100,000. He has already received $1,500 te see him safely home, lie has been from home since be was twelve years of age ; he is new about thirty ; was in the army of Her Majesty, Queen Victeria, but deserted and came te America, Last evening about 6 o'clock, as the engine attached te the St. Leuis express cast was about te enter the depot in this city, it broke the connections of one of the pistons, causing a short detention but no serious damage. The Niagara express was detained au hour tbis morning Ter a like reason. Philip Hilke, who has had charge of A. II. Sceville's tobacco interests in this city, finished packing his purchases en Thura-. day, closed his warchouse aud left Lan caster yesterday for his home in New Yerk. On the St. Leuis express last night there was a car-lead of running horses belong ing te McCarty, of Kentucky. They were being taken te Leng Branch. In the car there were ever a dozen darkeys of all colors, sizes, etc. They were grooms and riders. One hundred and five boys and girls be longing te the high schools of this city,to city,te gether with the teachers, left for Chickies at 10:25, te spend the day betanizing. One of the freight trains west this morning had en beard a number of very handseme coaches made for the Pitts burgh chariot company. They weraiinely and brilliantly painted. Yesterday afternoon Geerge Kline, who has the cleaning of the Belgian pavement in the first square of East King street, swept and washed Centre Square of the filth that has se long defiled it. Te day it leeks "bright as a new cent." Anether scene in the Heuse at Harris biirg yesterday. Wolfe and Hewit in an gry altercation. Hewit bulldozed him first from the chair and then took the fleer and they abused each ether like pick pockets, welle being accused of bum bum cembe and " talkee," insolence and impu dence, and Hewit of being a ringster, a gagger, of indecency, etc. Hewit called Ncbinger a tin whistle and the doughty Harrisburgcr intimated that Hewit was as empty if he was as loud as a bass drum. This morning a fine setter deg belong ing te Peter Demmel, 103 Derwart street, was observed te be "standing" in the garden attached te the premises. As the deg never " stands " unless there is game, Mr. Demmel moved forward te see what it was, and discovered that a snake, two feet Ieug, had captured and was about de vouring a sparrow. The bird was rescued and the snake killed. If the college trustees and faculty will poll the towns people, they will find nine tenths of them in favor of holding com mencement day exercises at the opera house. Toe many of them walk out te hear the boys' speeches and fail te get seats. Let alumni day be en the campus ; the baccalaureate exercises down town. There is a "star route" from Wrights ville te Havre de Grace. When let at $3, 000 without asking proposals it was te have been served daily by a steamboat en the canal. One horse and buggy en the towpath makes the $3,000. A fat take. About the middle of June Drs. M. H. Zell and Underwood, well known dentists of this city the former's reputation new being indeed international will sail for Europe te attcd the meetincr of the Inter national Medical andDental congress which meets in Londen in the early part of August. It will convene in twelve sec tions one of them dentistry all in oper ation at the one time, finally merging their papers in the convocation. About 30 American dentists are going ever te pale English dentistry beside Yankee skill in this line. Drs. Zell and Underwood will also go te Paris. KKKIOHT WKIX'K. Fourteen Cars Thrown Frem tbe Track. Last evening a serious wreck occurred en the Pennsylvania railroad a short distance west of the large iron bridge ever the Con Cen Con estega which is situated about a mile east of this city. About twenty minntes past seven o'clock, engine 254 with a train of freight cars were running east when an axle en a coal car broke. Fourteen cars, all of which were leaded with coal, were thrown from the track. Seven of the cars were broken te pieces, and the coal was spilled in every direction. The Columbia accommodation, which reaches this city at 7.-20,had arrived before the accident occurred, and Harris bnrg express, which fellows closely behind it, was stepped by Ambrose O'Donnell who flagged it in time te prevent an acci dent. Immediately after the wreck oc curred the wreck trains stationed at Parkes burg and Columbia were telegraphed for. They seen arrived and the men at once went te work te clear up tbe passenger train was run from track. A Dillerville te the place of the wreck and the passen gers for Yerk and Columbia were trans ferred te it. The north track was cleared at 1:30 this morning, and then all passen ger and freight trains were enabled te go west The south trade was net cieareu until 6 o'clock this morning, and all east ern bound trains were delayed until that time. Ne one was injured by the wreck ; al though there wasa brakeman en one of the cars, which jumped the track, be suc ceeded in escaping unscratched. Columbia, mrws. OCKKEGCLAK, VOKKESPOMUENCE. Tn Sttsh Scheel CenamMMBt. i " commencement exercises or the )h,8h school graduating claw offline took place in the opera house last evening be- iiue wrge auuience. me stage was oc cupied by the orator of the evening, the graduating class, school beard, Borough superintendent of schools, principal and assistant of the high school aad a repre sentative of the clergy in the person of Rev. Jehn McCoy, pastor of the Presbyter ian church. Mr. McCoy opened the exer cises with prayer and a selection was then rendered by Keffer's fall orchestra, which had been engaged for the evening. W. B. Given, esq., a member of the school beard made a few well chosen remarks, ia which he recapitulated the workings of the beard during the last year, the manner in which the money accruing te the school district had been expended te the complete effacement of every ligament of debt and its present prosper ous condition ; the thorough efficiency of the teachers of the schools and the thorough practical drilling te which the present class of graduates had been sub jected. He.tben introduced Professer E. Brooks, Ph. D., as the -distinguished edu cator wbe had consented te deliver aa ad dress te the class. Prof. Brooks spoke for an hour and a quarter. His speech was written and carefully prepared. He traced the greatness of the great men of history from their mothers ; taking them from their cradles as children, describing their home influences and surroundings and declaring that where a man rose te true and actual greatness, no nutter from what station in life, be it high or low, his mother, in training his mind with what it should contain and se fitting him te successfully battle the world, deserved a portion, if net most, of the credit. Likewise he censured a peer mother. It is no wonder, said he, that Nere was tbe monster he was when we consider tbe kind of woman he had for a mother. Neglect and "poll-parrot-ism," as he( terms it, in mothers te their children, he strongly repudiated. He said no man bad a right te strike his child in anger, and also condemned scolding. On the latter point he recited a short anec dote in which a child asked a scolding mother if Ged scolded. He gave the clergy, tbe school beard, the teachers and the graduating class some geed advice and finished his address at 9:35 o'clock. Prof. Ames then delivered the diplomas te the graduates, and it was during this por tion of the exercises that the' floral presentations te the graduates, by their friends in the audience, were made. The bouquets had allprevieusly been collected and there was no confusion in depositing them at the feet of their recipients. Kef fer's orchestra played another selection and then Prof. Ames was seen te come ou the stage with two hats his own and Prof. Brooks'. The audience took the hint, smiled and departed. The young ladies of the class were all dressed very handsomely in white. Mr. Bruner was dressed in black. He was presented with a geld watch by his father. Boreagh Badget. Bass are plenty and the season opens next Wednesday. The high school graduates aad school beard will go in a body te-morrow te hear a special sermon te them by Rev. Henry Wheeler, of the M. E. church. The school term of 1830 81 ended yes terday and the summer vacation will con tinue longer than three months. Rev. Geerge Fraser formerly of Indiana will preach for SL Jehn's English Luth eran congregation in Shuler's hall, to morrow morning and evening. Eigbtecntrucks enough running gear te fully equip nine cars were sent from here last night te the wreck near Lan caster. Chief Marshal Yocum. of Decoration day parade, will pnt his staff at the head ei tbe precession ; next councils, school beard, Citizens band, Ce. H., Pest 118 G. A. R. ; beneficial and ether societies?; citizens. E. A. Becker. Ed. Caswell and J. L. Wrichtare the aids. The line will move at 3:30 p. m., and at the signal of three volleys from Ce. U. the strewing of flowers will begin. Gee W. MoElrey. esq., will deliver the oration in the opera house at 8 p. m. A vocal quartet will furnish music. Grand Army men can get blouses from Quartermaster James L. Pinkerton. OBITUARY Death of Mliia Sarah O'Neill. Miss Sarah C. A. O'Neill,-grand neice of the late Very Rev. Bernard Keenan, died yesterday at the residence of her aunt, Miss Ann Keenan, Ne. 43 West Vine street, aged about 43 years. Miss O'Neill was a native of Ireland, came te this country when a small child and was raised under the care of her aunt, Miss Keenan. She was a teacher in the parish school, of this city, many years age, and was for fifteen years a clerk in the treasury de partment. Fer the past five or six years she has been in ill health and has resided with Miss Keenan. Miss O'Neill was a most devoted Catholic, a daily communicant, and died fortified in her faith with tbe last rites of the church. Her funeral will take place at St. Mary's church at 8:30 en Mon day morning. Death of Mrs. Alex. Harberger. Mrs. EmmaJeneM, wife of Alex J. Bar berger, died at the family residence, Ne. 225 Seuth Queen street, yesterday after noon, after a severe and protracted sick ness. Mrs. flarbenrer was known and esteemed by a large circle of friends for ber many womanly virtues and pleasant social qualities. She was reared and died a Catholic. Her funeral will take place at St. Mary's church, at 9:30 en Monday morning, at which time solemn requiem mass will be calebrated. Change of Tine Table. On and after toraerrow.May, 29 the fol lowing changes of schedule will go into effect en the Reading & Columbia rail rail eoad: Tbe train that formerly left Quarryville at 6:45 a. m. will leave at 6:40. arriving in this city at 8 o'clock instead of 8.-05 ; and the tram which left Quarryville at 7:50 a. m. is changed te 7:33, reaching here at 927 instead of 9:40. Going south, the train which under the old arraagemeBt left Reading at 8:05,a m. reaching Lancas ter at 10:07 and Quarryville at 1120, will hereafter leave tbe first named place at 725. arrive here at King street depot 9:37 and Quarryville at 10:37. Tbe evening train which new leaves tbe King street depot at 5:10, and arrives at Quarryville at 6:40, will under tbe new schedule leave King street at 5:40 and arrive at Quarry ville at 7:10. Silver Wedding. Yesterday it was twenty-five years since Officer J. P. Killinger, of the city police force, and his wife were united in marriage and they celebrated their silver wedding at their home, Ne. 617 West Orange street. A large number of friends from this city antl aiumpre were present. Tbe uiu- zens eana serenaaeu ine ceapie as a uue hour. The presents were many and valu able, and all in attendance had an excel lent time. Permanent Cert Men tee. The committee en permanent certifi cates met in the high school building, this city, this morning and tne following teachers were recommended for perma nent certificates: LydiaE. Richosend. Eva Stevenson, W. J. McComb, Mary A. E. Turner, Lydia Stauffer, Mary L. Pat. tersen, Emma F. Hcrr, and M. Baraett 3 f
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